Quiet, compact Herbold Mecksheim granulator supplied to French mineral water producer

摘要

Herbold Mecksheim GmbH, of Mecksheim, Germany, has recently delivered a Herbold C-Series granulator to a French mineral water producer. The unit, which features a compact design and has been customised with integrated sound insulation, handles waste and scrap from PET bottles and preforms. The scrap components are collected in containers that are emptied onto a sorting table upstream of a conveyor belt. The table is equipped with sorting cavities for the evacuation of foreign bodies such as small screws, wooden pieces and other other extraneous materials. The bottles and preforms are forwarded to the conveyor belt by the operator. The belt has been specially designed with a short and steep profile because of constricted space on the site and enables dosed feeding of the granulator, which features stainless-steel product-touching components. An integrated metal detector immediately stops the feeding belt if it detects any metal items, including stainless steel and non-magnetic metals, in the feeding material.